In Like Flint
In 1966 the consensus was that Dean Martin’s Matt Helm films were spoofs of the James Bond franchise—but Dino’s real inspiration was Derek Flint, the preposterously cool secret agent played to a T by James Coburn. When Our Man Flint scored big at the box office a sequel was fast on its heels: In Like Flint, a pop-art distillation of spy-spoofs and flower power. The plot itself could be taken as a satire of Bond’s retro-grade chauvinism: Flint fights a band of feminist anarchists bent on ruling the world.
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About Dr. Z
There are entertainers who only need one name: Sammy, Frank, Cher. To that list you can add Dr. Solomon Francis Zed. Dr. Z has been entertaining audiences for decades with a patented combination of showmanship and pizzaz that Lew Wasserman once described as, “a tall glass of yes with a wow chaser.” After gaining fame with his wildly successful nightclub act, Dr. Z established his acting bona fides on Broadway with a one-man show based on Twelve Angry Men and followed it up with a Tony winning version of The Shining called Overlookin’. On film, he played Abe Lincoln in an extended flashback sequence in The Towering Inferno that ended up on the cutting room floor, but picked up an Oscar the following year playing an arachnophobic priest who faces his fears in the disaster blockbuster Tarantulanche! Never tiring, Dr. Z still bounds out of bed every afternoon to fill any empty spotlight he can find.